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Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity

Warren G. Bennis

Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
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Herds Painting Vision
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.
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Different Government Onions
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Believe Dream Leadership
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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Needs People Vision
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born – that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Inspirational Motivational Success
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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Balance Groups Important
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
If great teams don’t have an “enemy,” they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, “you can’t have a war without one.”
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Create Enemy Team War
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills

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